kieli
‘tongue’ · runosong lemma · Finnish noun
| English gloss | tongue |
|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun |
| Language | Finnish |
| Total occurrences | 7,172 |
| By corpus | SKVR 4,202, JR 2,970, KR 363 poems, ERAB 0 |
The counts in this table cover all attested spellings of this lemma, not only the headword form; all are word occurrences, except the KR figure in the By corpus row, which counts poems and is not part of the total.
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Attested wordforms
kieli, kieltä, kielen, kielin, kielet, kiel, kielellä, kielelläsi, kieles, kielesi, kielille, kieleni, kielelläs, kielellänsä, kieloi, kielelläni, kiälin, kielelle, kielt, kielestäsi, kieldä, kieleltä, kielestä, kielelleni, kielten, kielessäsi, kielestäs, kleelin, kielel, kielelläis, kielellään, kielessäs, kielensä, kielillä, kieleen, kieliä, kielees, kielell, kielessä, kielessäni … and 291 more of 331 attested forms
English words in the AI translations
How often the AI analysis used each English word when it translated the uses of this word. Forms of one English word are counted together, and one translation can contain several words, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
| English word | Uses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| tongue (tongue's, tongues) | 5,468 | 81.1% |
| language (language's, languages) | 596 | 8.8% |
| string (strings) | 576 | 8.5% |
| forbid | 36 | 0.5% |
| Uses counted | 6,739 |
Example verses
- kielin kandeleh pagizi (SKVR I1 2.) read in context
The kantele's strings spoke. - mistä kielet suadanehgi (SKVR I1 4.) read in context
Whence came the strings? - kielin kandervo pagazi (SKVR I1 4 a).) read in context
- mistä kanteleh kielet saaha (SKVR I1 9.) read in context
"Where find harp's strings?" - kielin kandeleh pagisi (SKVR I1 9 a).) read in context
The kantele’s strings sang. - mistä kielet saatanee (SKVR I1 11.) read in context
Where might strings come? - mistäs kielet soataisiki (SKVR I1 14.) read in context
"How to get the strings? - mist on tähän kielet saamme (SKVR I1 15.) read in context
"Where do we get strings for this?"
Companion words
Words that co-occur with this lemma inside the same verse line more often than chance predicts, ranked by log-likelihood (G²) over verse-level co-occurrence in SKVR, KR, JR and ERAB; only pairs seen at least 3 times.
| Word | Association (G²) | Co-occurrences |
|---|---|---|
| mesi | 2,250 | 415 |
| pieksää | 2,022 | 249 |
| mieli | 1,526 | 365 |
| keittää | 1,256 | 265 |
| uupua | 1,237 | 163 |
| keihäs | 1,110 | 159 |
| kannel | 959 | 178 |
| kerkeä | 808 | 82 |
Song types
Song types of the poems attesting this lemma, as catalogued per poem in the source corpora (ERAB type names are in Estonian, SKVR names in Finnish; JR and KR poems carry no song-type record).
| Song type | Poems |
|---|---|
| Käärmeen sanat | 407 |
| Käärmeen synty | 302 |
| Kanteleen soitto | 191 |
| Kanteleen synty | 189 |
| Laulajan palkka | 130 |
| Laivaretki | 107 |
| Käärmeen pureman historiola | 99 |
| Emännän kolme kieltä | 92 |
Collection places
Where the poems attesting this lemma were collected; each count is the number of attesting poems recorded at that place.
| Place | Poems |
|---|---|
| Narvusi | 326 |
| Vuokkiniemi | 261 |
| Suistamo | 195 |
| Ilomantsi | 127 |
| Uhtua | 125 |
| Soikkola | 123 |
| Kontokki | 112 |
| Lempaala | 106 |
| Vuole | 99 |
| Sakkola | 86 |
Attestation over time
Poems attesting this lemma by decade of collection or publication; undated poems are not shown.
| Decade | Poems |
|---|---|
| 1650–1659 | 1 |
| 1670–1679 | 2 |
| 1680–1689 | 1 |
| 1690–1699 | 9 |
| 1700–1709 | 13 |
| 1730–1739 | 1 |
| 1750–1759 | 7 |
| 1760–1769 | 4 |
| 1770–1779 | 6 |
| 1780–1789 | 30 |
| 1800–1809 | 10 |
| 1810–1819 | 57 |
| 1820–1829 | 131 |
| 1830–1839 | 359 |
| 1840–1849 | 497 |
| 1850–1859 | 378 |
| 1860–1869 | 60 |
| 1870–1879 | 220 |
| 1880–1889 | 749 |
| 1890–1899 | 536 |
| 1900–1909 | 374 |
| 1910–1919 | 332 |
| 1920–1929 | 106 |
| 1930–1939 | 592 |
| 1940–1949 | 153 |
| 1950–1959 | 116 |
| 1960–1969 | 90 |
Collectors
The collectors who most often recorded poems attesting this lemma.
| Collector | Poems |
|---|---|
| Elias Lönnrot | 564 |
| Volmari Porkka | 190 |
| D. E. D. Europaeus | 181 |
| Kaarle Krohn | 176 |
| A. A. Borenius | 145 |
Poems attesting this lemma (60 / 4,849)
- SKVR: SKVR I1 2., SKVR I1 4., SKVR I1 4 a)., SKVR I1 9., SKVR I1 9 a)., SKVR I1 11., SKVR I1 14., SKVR I1 15., SKVR I1 17., SKVR I1 18., SKVR I1 30., SKVR I1 30 a)., SKVR I1 49., SKVR I1 63 a)., SKVR I1 63 b)., SKVR I1 78., SKVR I1 83 a)., SKVR I1 84., SKVR I1 86., SKVR I1 91., SKVR I1 101., SKVR I1 102., SKVR I1 103., SKVR I1 105., SKVR I1 106., SKVR I1 107., SKVR I1 117., SKVR I1 120., SKVR I1 122., SKVR I1 123., SKVR I1 145., SKVR I1 157., SKVR I1 208., SKVR I1 284., SKVR I1 304., SKVR I1 309., SKVR I1 332., SKVR I1 359., SKVR I1 363., SKVR I1 363 a)., SKVR I1 368., SKVR I1 369., SKVR I1 392., SKVR I1 393., SKVR I1 399., SKVR I1 401., SKVR I1 401 a)., SKVR I1 403., SKVR I1 404., SKVR I1 411., SKVR I1 426., SKVR I1 448., SKVR I1 455., SKVR I1 508., SKVR I1 514 a)., SKVR I1 541., SKVR I1 542., SKVR I1 546., SKVR I1 547., SKVR I1 574 a).
Related lemmas
- Estonian cognate: keel
About this profile
The counts and examples on this page come from the lemmatized text of four Finnic runosong corpora: SKVR, JR, KR and ERAB. The table of English words comes from an AI analysis of the corpus; song types, collection places, collectors and dates follow each poem's own catalogue record.
The table of English words is counted from the translations kept in the AI analysis files, which hold only the most frequent translations of each word or spelling, so rare translations can be missing. Words that carry only grammar (such as the, to or didn’t) are left out, and so are English words used fewer than 5 times or in less than 0.1% of the uses counted. The analysis files can group two closely related words, which then show the same table.
Verses are found by the spellings listed above, so an occasional verse may show a different word spelled the same way.